Microsoft's CoApp To Help OSS Development, Deployment 293
badpazzword writes "Microsoft employee Garrett Serack announces he has received the green light to work full time on CoApp, an .msi-based package management system aiming to bring a wholly native toolchain for OSS development and deployment. This will hopefully bring more open source software on Windows, which will bring OSS to more users, testers and developers. Serack is following the comments at Ars Technica, so he might also follow them here. The launchpad project is already up."
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:5, Funny)
Linus Torvalds
Linux Kernel Founder
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:5, Funny)
Ask me about anything to do with snow, the north pole, midgets, flying reindeer and flying midgets.
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:4, Funny)
It all feels too much like a dirty beat up van in a shopping mall parking lot with "free candy" painted on the side...
Re:Microsoft has been surprising me lately (Score:1, Funny)
I like Windows so please harass me too!
You like WHAT?!
Don't you know that every time you boot into Windows, an angel gets set on fire? Do you like doing that, you malevolent bastard?
Stop your evil ways, or when you die you'll go to GNU/Hell! Where your PC speaker beeps all day long, every day! Where all HTML must start with an unclosed blink tag! Where EDLIN is the good editor you'll get if you kiss the sysadmin's ass enough! Where all your printer drivers require you to sign away a testicle! Where you must work 19 hours a day bugfixing Visual Basic code written by retarded monkeys, only to have them make printouts of your corrections and defecate on them at the subsequent five hour meetings!
Repent! Repent!
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:5, Funny)
Uh. That's it.
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:3, Funny)
I use that all the time!
The question we all really want to ask (Score:2, Funny)
Does this service run on dead babies, or are they still alive and crying as you shovel them into the gaping maw of endless darkness that powers it?
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:3, Funny)
I thought that was an attempt to get a stripper out of jail when I saw it.
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:1, Funny)
I'm Santa.
There you are, you fat bastard. Where's My PONY?!?
Merry Christmas,
Virginia
Re:Microsoft has been surprising me lately (Score:3, Funny)
I like Windows so please harass me too!
I'm pretty sure you get all the suffering you need already.
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:5, Funny)
At least you can diff a config file. Try that with a gui.
I do that that all the time, screenshot + OCR only takes me 30 secs to pop the data into excel.
office/windows is a pretty stable work platform, Linux I'm always spending 15 minutes getting a screenshot app working.
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:5, Funny)
TO: Virignia
We have finished the research on flying midgets. We are moving on to flying goats next, which should let us finally allow pigs to fly.
We thank you for your patience whilst we satisfy your mother's prerequisite requirements on when you can have a pony.
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:4, Funny)
By killer you mean those that admin it wish to kill themselves right?
The thing even lacks the ability to use smtp auth.
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:5, Funny)
I'm Alfred the Butler.
Would you like a cup of tea Sirs?
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:1, Funny)
I'm Batman.
Ask me about young boys in green tights and masks and I will deny that I ever let them inside my "bad cave".
Re:wholly native toolchain (Score:4, Funny)
This is the sort of thing that makes the FSM smile upon you and shall earn you an afterlife spent near the beer volcano and stripper factory.
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:3, Funny)
It's 2010 and you are still doing *that*.
*sigh*
You know, that'd be funny if it was so damn sad. :)
Let me right the first line of code for you. (Score:4, Funny)
I am feeling generous this evening and decided I would donate the first line of code to this
fine project. I relinquish all copyrights on the following line of code, feel free to do with
it as you wish.
#include "ie6.h"
Re:ANother ploy just like .nyet (Score:3, Funny)
You mean CoApp-ting ;)
Re:Conversely (Score:3, Funny)
<nazi style="xml">
You can't include attributes in a close tag. Also, you need quotes around the value of the attribute for it to be confirming XML.
</nazi>
&winkingsmiley;
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:1, Funny)
How to write a question that isn't going to be answered, in 1 easy step.
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'll follow them here too. :D (Score:3, Funny)
Well, ya see... with a five-digit slashdot-id I originally had "His name cannot be Spoken" as my name... then they did some database truncation about 12 or so years ago, and I lost some letters.
MySQL: Because your data probably wasn't that important anyway.